I launched and designed this site, but I feel like I'm still kind of kicking its tires and getting to know it better. One of the things I've had to think about is what kind of podcast strategy I want to have for the Bits and Pieces podcast. What music I upload, what music I don't upload.

This intersects all sorts of meaty philosophical songwriter issues that I'm sure I'll write about a lot more in the future. Whether to give music away for free, etc.

But in a nutshell, it's the question of what kind of music quality I want to upload. I see it in three levels:

  1. finished polished stuff, like produced songs - I definitely should do this to build audience, but it's hard to "let go" and actually make the decision
  2. roughdraft songs, reasonably good sounding arrangements and jazz covers/standards - I'll definitely be doing this, and already have, e.g. One For My Baby (since hidden for copyright reasons)
  3. more "in-progress" material, like snatches of lessons, things I'm practicing (and struggling with). I'm torn on this one because not everyone would want to hear it. But this is also sort of supposed to be a journal of mine.

So for now, I'm definitely doing the first two, but I imagine some of #3 might leak in from time to time.